In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

by Seanan McGuire

If a carnival and a farmer’s market and a craft fair all decided to happen at the same time, in the same field, the result might have been something like what was in front of her.

He shouldn’t have treated her like she didn’t matter. He shouldn’t have treated her like his idea of a girl.

You can’t save anyone if you neglect yourself. All you can do is fall slowly with them. Come to bed.”

No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.”